By default, yes. I always quickly follow the instructions online to disable all of that on a new install so I've never encountered them. For me it's no more has

By default, yes. I always quickly follow the instructions online to disable all of that on a new install so I've never encountered them. For me it's no more hassle than the things I need to do on a fresh Linux install. I haven't seen it push for Edge, in fact I don't think I've opened Edge since install day.